Anesthesia Modifiers

Anesthesia Modifiers

Tina was to be operated on for appendectomy. Local anesthesia was applied to the affected part. During the surgery, the surgeons discovered that the infection had spread to a larger area. To attend to the other portions, they decided to administer general anesthesia. Discuss and explain which modifier will be used to identify her condition. What would be the appropriate CPT code/s? How does the coding effect reimbursement?

Create and describe three situations where the four add-on codes for qualifying circumstances will be used for anesthesia billing.

Hi Melissa83, this really sounds like it's a question from a class and I would suggest that you ask your instructor if you're lost. It's in your best interest to interact with whoever is teaching you. Or go back to your reading materials and take the question apart and go slowly. I'm sorry but I am going suggest that no one answers this question it's not a good way for you to learn. You may get several different interpretations which may further confuse you. Good luck!

I pity poor Tina, doing a local for an appendectomy. In my mind, I ask, where did the infection come from and what was infected? Most surgeons I know wouldnt operate on someone until the infection was gone. I know I had an infection and needed surgery. They had me on 10 days of antibiotics before they did the surgery. I agree, this should be better answered by the instructor that assigned this test or homework assignment. Sorry, its been a hard day.

I am not a lawyer. My post is not legal advice. You are free to seek a lawyer at your own expense for legal answers. Your asking for my layperson guidance holds me harmless and indemnifies me and the MAB against any and all lawsuits. We are not an approving agency. My name is, and I approve this message! Im sorry, Im not in at the moment, at the tone, please leave a message.... BEEP!

I remember another movie, I forgot the name, where a doctor did a local on himself and did his own appendectomy.

I am not a lawyer. My post is not legal advice. You are free to seek a lawyer at your own expense for legal answers. Your asking for my layperson guidance holds me harmless and indemnifies me and the MAB against any and all lawsuits. We are not an approving agency. My name is, and I approve this message! Im sorry, Im not in at the moment, at the tone, please leave a message.... BEEP!

We'll all have to keep an eye out for these types of questions the same thing with your other posts. This is the worst way to try and make it through a class, by posting on a forum to get an answer instead of contacting your instructor.

You're not going to learn and you're going to get a bunch of responses like the ones you received on this post, you're not doing yourself any favors. Just remember that you should be taking the class to learn and not just get by.

this is the scenerio: Tina was to be operated on for appendectomy. Local anesthesia was applied to the affected part. During the surgery, the surgeons discovered that the infection had spread to a larger area. To attend to the other portions, they decided to administer general anesthesia. Discuss and explain which modifier will be used to identify her condition.

It was preceded by the following:what modifier is used when a surgeon first uses local anesthesia during an appendectomy, but then needs to use general anesthesia due to the infected area spreading? do i use modifier -22? also what would be the patients physical status code? p-2 or p-3?

I am not a lawyer. My post is not legal advice. You are free to seek a lawyer at your own expense for legal answers. Your asking for my layperson guidance holds me harmless and indemnifies me and the MAB against any and all lawsuits. We are not an approving agency. My name is, and I approve this message! Im sorry, Im not in at the moment, at the tone, please leave a message.... BEEP!